Category Archives: Uncategorized
Three Vaccines for Fall: What You Need to Know
July 7, 2023According to the NY Times, here’s who should get the flu, Covid and R.S.V. vaccines, and when. By Apoorva Mandavilli July 5, 2023 Most Americans have had one or more shots of
How the Inflation Reduction Act Reduces Health Care Costs
August 15, 2022CAP American Progress ARTICLE AUG 12, 2022 Nicole Rapfogel & Emily Gee The Inflation Reduction Act’s health insurance subsidies and drug pricing reforms will improve health care affordability for Americans. The
It is up to us – the growning patient safety movement
September 9, 2010Slowly the public is coming to realize that hospitals are not always safe places. When the Institute of Medicine published its landmark study “To Err Is Human” a decade ago, pointing out the ubiquitous problem of medical errors in the U.S., the press yawned. Since then, though, a grassroots patient safety movement has blossomed, and the media’s interest has grown along with it. More journalists are using data and old-fashioned shoe leather reporting to dig into what’s killing Americans in places that are supposed to make them well
everything you need to know about hand hygiene
May 18, 2010This is an amazing resource. But what we have to figure out is how to get everyone to follow basic rules about clean hands. http://www.cdc.gov/handhygiene/index.html There is no issue that
Health care has no intrinsic value at all, none. Health does.
April 29, 2010This is an amazingly wonderful and insightful quote. Don Berwick, for twentyone years has thoughtfully led with integrity and compassion. I can imagine now his confimation hearings at which those
learning to say NO NO NO
April 8, 2010This is just a great article that addresses one of our increasing concerns – inappropriate care and over use. I am much more suspicious than the journalists. I love the
Press conference March 1, 2010
February 28, 2010At 11 am we kick off a public health hearing with a press conference with the Attorney General. We are offering simple solutions to complex problems. Restricting pharmaceutical gifts to
Medical errors – Third largest cause of death in the United States
January 11, 2010The investigation found that nearly 9 percent, or 700 surgeons, admitted to having made a major mistake within the previous three months.
Ten Years too Late
January 7, 2010New York Times has a great article on the use of chloratxidine. It is infuriating how many studies and how much harm before simple and imporant practices are implemented CDC
One Person is One Too Many
December 4, 2009Recently the transcrpts of Cardinal Egan’s depositions on the sexual abuse of parishoners have been made public. While being deposed, he talked about the statistical insignificance of the numbers of